He will not attend the Lyon meeting because “it’s controlled by psycho-sociologists who are manipulated by the rationalists.” In five minutes he managed to rattle off a rabid commentary on everything that was wrong in the world. (1989)

For old time’s sake I also called Guérin. His voice was excited and vibrant as always. He has jumped to all sorts of new conclusions.

He repeats loudly what we have been saying in private about the Air Force, which he accuses of negligence, and about Menzel whom he practically calls incompetent. (1967)

Jim speaks today before the annual meeting of American newspaper editors. He has sent me the advance text of his remarks. This time all the cards are on the table.

At one intermission I had the pleasure of meeting Father Reyna, an elderly Jesuit theologian who was the first Argentinian researcher of the UFO subject. The public is enthusiastic and friendly, rushing to meet us, always ready to help, eager to shake hands and to tell us stories. (1980)

On Thursday we had dinner at Ingo’s place with his friend Stuart. I was happy that Janine finally saw Ingo’s apartment. He told us that a certain “private” group of government researchers had hired him to remote-view a set of coordinates where a UFO base was supposed to exist. (1984)

Arpa is the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense, created in the late fifties to react swiftly to the Russian threat in space. It is now deploying the first network of computers to span a continent. (1972)

Blackburn hinted he was working on UFOs, or the Secret Onion, or perhaps on Stealth? Nobody is sure of anything any more. The only interesting fact in all this is the observation that the confusion is deliberately engineered. (1989)

Now a truckdriver has seen several disks and a blue sphere on the ground at Deep Springs Ranch (Rt. 168, close to the California border) near two Navy high-altitude research installations, according to Fred who got this from Dr. Ron Blackburn, a microwave specialist formerly at Lockheed Skunk Works.

On the first night of my stay I was shaken out of bed by two loud explosions: opponents to Mitterrand’s regime had blown up some offices of the immigration department. The next day the girls of the red light district demonstrated in the streets, wearing masks and little else. (1985)

This led us to discuss the nature of time, a subject I’ve been pondering in my consciousness and synchronicity tests at Spring Hill. He sees time as nature's way to resolve logical paradoxes. I love his idea that time gets generated from the resolution of semantic absurdity. (1994)

My former SRI colleague and wonder programmer Dick Shoup invited me to come and see him at Interval Research, a new Palo Alto think tank where he works on the “Roots of Not,” a new concept in logic.

Instead of going to the movies or to the corner cafe we spend every evening punching cards. After work we now make it a practice to go to the magnificent facilities of IBM France on Place Vendome, where the key-punch units are freely available to IBM customers. (1962)

As in some U.S. cases, this happened near a naval base. Were they commandos in combat training? Punta Arenas is also a magical center, according to Bettina, which harbors numerous cults and quite a few ex-Nazi. (1980)

Near Pier Five, two medical students spoke of a confrontation with black beings that came from the water, like the Kappas of Japanese legend. Similar creatures were reported in Punta Arenas in Chile a year ago. Such black beings were said to take the blood of their victims.

Janine reminds me we could survive frugally if we needed to, cutting down expenses and trips. I have no desire to retire in France. I want to spend the rest of my days in California, with her. (1999)

I have deciphered the ugly writing on the wall and decided to leave the Fund I was helping to build. I shall be a lonely warrior again. Others may reap profits from my work, but I have my life and soul.

Still in Montmartre, hidden in a cheap hotel, the better to work on my manuscript. When thinking about the future of artificial intelligence and venture capital it is crucial to take a long-term view, but I cannot find it in Paris. (1987)

”They also treat me to wonderful gourmet food joints and are the only married people I know who have breakfast in bed together. You'd think that after all those married years one or the other would get a grapefruit in the face but no, these are genuine love birds.” (1997)

In his lively autobiography George Kuchar writes in his quirky style: “Another fun couple to eat out with is Dr. Jacques Vallee and his wife, Janine. To hell with French restaurants. They love stopping off at Denny's and getting a big breakfast at any hour of the day.”

We also spent time discussing the details of a UFO crash that is supposed to have happened at the Bolivian border. Fabio believes there may be an underground UFO base in the Andes. (1980)

This afternoon we drove through insane traffic to interview a witness in San Isidro, regarding a remarkable visitation by a shining being.

On Tuesday over lunch with Hal, I pointed out how the secrecy around the SRI work had a discouraging impact on research at large. Our old parapsychology research group (PRG), which gave Hal and Russell the impetus and framework to start their formal effort, doesn't even meet anymore. (1979)

This week we had Gerry and Sally for dinner, as well as Thad Wilson and a cable television entrepreneur named Aaron Katz who wants to explore the potential of computer conferencing in connection with his news programs. (1975)

Columns of numbers express ventricles pumping blood, vessels expanding, lungs breathing inside the mathematical "model" that tabulates blood pressure and volume throughout the system. (1964)

I don't have such luxuries, but I am acquiring solid computer experience at Northwestern, where I now make my living as a programmer for the Physiology Department. In one typical experiment we run simulations of the cardiovascular system.

The dangers of letting consciousness "rise through the palaces of the Throne" are very great say the cabalists, because Angels and Archangels attack the traveler to chase him away, and a great fire comes from inside his own body to devour him.

I think I know what that great internal fire is. (1966)

Second-rate “rationalists” make a name for themselves by attacking Von Daniken, and it is obvious that he's no scientist: he doesn't claim to be. But we found him alive and buoyant; we enjoyed the evening thoroughly. (1977)

Next, I picked up The Economist and was shocked to read that François de Grossouvre had died of a bullet to the brain at the Elysée palace on April 7th.
Ominously, the article refers to the fact that he was “compiling archives on unspecified subjects.” (1994)

They had never heard of the Lead Mask incident, for example, which happened near Rio in August 1966 and involved the well-documented death of two researchers of the paranormal. But they were well aware of the Spanish Ummo hoax, which has repercussions in Argentina. (1980)